Car window sash



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APPLICATION FILED APR. 18, 191B.

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CAR WINDOW SASH.

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CHRISTIAN N. ILSJENG, OF CHICAGG, ILLINOIS.

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Application filed April 1t, 1913. `Serial No. 229,461.

To all whom t may concern:

Be. it known that I, CHRISTIAN N. ILSENG,

a citizen of the United States of America,

and resident of Chicago, Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Car Window 'Sashes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention contemplates a noveland practical method of salvaging old car Window sashes for the purpose of building newsashes from the unimpaired, usable sections thereof. Ordinarily, car window sashes, which are made of metal, are thrown away when they become rusted or broken. Prior to this invention, so far as now known, there was no practical method which could be employed for the purpose of building'l new sashes from the unimpaired or usable sections of the old sashes. Consequently, as stated, the old sashes, including vthe locks., were ordinarily discarded, and while they were, of course, capable of being melted up for old metal, such as brass, they were Iegarded as being without value for the pur-v pose of building new sashes. In accordance.

with this invention, therefore, the old sashes are employed in the manufacture of new sashes, by separating the rusted or otherwise impaired portions from the usable sections, and bysplicing together the usable sections to form new sashes. In this way, on an average, two or three old sashes can be salvaged to produce a new or reconstructed sash. But it will be understood that thel number of new sashes to be produced from any given number of old sashes will depend upon the condition of the latter.

'Io this and other useful ends the inventtion consists in matters hereinafter set. forth and claimed and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure lis a front elevation of the car window sash produced or reconstructed from old and worn out or rusted sashes, embodying the principles of the invention.

Figure 2 is an enlarged horizontal section on line 2 2 in-Figure; 1.

Figure 3 is a perspective of one of the splicers shown in dotted lines in Figure 1.

Figure 4 is an enlarged vertical section of one of the lower corner portions of the sash.

Figure 5 is a horizontal section on line 5-5 of Figure 4.

Figure 6- is a front elevation of the corner l portion shown in Figure 4.

Figure 7 is an enlarged rear elevation of one of the locks shown in previous views.

Figure 8 is a detail view showing the in- \vent1on applied to a different form of sash. \.F1gure 9 1s a section on line 9-9 of Figure 8. i

.Asi thus illustrated the -invention comprises a rectangular car window sash composed of hollow metal sections 1, 2, and 3., forming the upper portion of the frame, and

other sections 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 forming the lower portion of the rectangular sash or frame. These sections are formed by cutting the old sashes into lengths and in many cases the entire top of a sash and half the sides thereof can be saved. For example, as shown, the sections-,1, 2, and 3 can be the unimpaired upper portion of an old sash, as the rusting occurs in the lower portion of the sash to a greater extent than in the upper portion, so that while the lower portion of the sash may be badly rusted in some cases, the upper portion will be practically as good as new. The lower portions 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, can be cut from other old sashes, from the upper portions thereof, it being understood that the method contemplates the saving of any and all portions of the sashes which are usable, and this will involve the use of the salvaged or saved sections in different lengths. In this way buttjoints are formed at 9, 10, 11, and 12, by the insertion of splicers within the ends of the hollow sections, and for the forming of the sash, shown in vFigures 1' to 7 inclusive, the splicer shown in Figure 3 may be employed. This splicer comprises a pair of channel bars 13 spaced apart and connectedl by rivets or short rods 14, the splicers being formed to lit the interior of the brass or other sheet metal sections of the sash (see Figure 2), so that the usual or ordinary groove 15, for the edge of the glam, will vextend into the splicers.l These splicers can be secured in place in any suitable or desired manner, but are preferably incorporated by sweating or by braising or some other method of soldering; but when sweated in they are practically integrally united to the hollow sections of the sash, and eachvjoint is smoothed and finished in a way that makes it practically unnoticeable, but at the same time very strong, and in this way the reconstructed sashes not only have ruiter-joints at the corners, but also one or more buttjOntS at random between the corners. As

y. ance of the lock shown shown in Figure l the upper corner splicers 16 can be those that are ordinarily employed, and which form the miter joints for the corners inasmuch as the upper corners of the old sashesare usually in good condition and do not need reconstruction.

However, the lower corner splicers 17 must be specially treated and are of a'particular character, inasmuch as in the old sashes they were associated in a particular manner with the locks which are ordnarily found at the lower corners of a car window sash and are usualy badly rusted. Each of the lower splicers 17 is, therefore, preferably of the form shown more clearly in Figure 4, and are applied as follows:

The old splicer 17 is reinforced and some.- what enlarged by a bent strip of metal 18, preferably of brass, held in place byv rivets 19 inserted through the splicer. The ends of the sections 4 and 6 are bevelled to form a miter joint and the ends of the sections and 8 are also bevelled to form a miter joint, and the reinforced splicers 17 are then inserted in place. Slots 20 and 21 are formed in the sash, adjacent each lower corner, and holes 22 and 23 are formed in the sash opposite the holes 24 and 25 in the splicer. The. old locks are removed from the old sashes. and the backs of the locks are changed so that they have lthe appearin Figure 7, .the back plate of each lock 26 beingbevelled along its edges 27 and 28 and being formed `with lugs 29 and 30 to enter the slots 2O and 21, whereby these lugs 29 and 30 eX- tend inside of the sash and are thus con'- 'cealed The openings 31l and 32 of said lugs will come opposite the holes 22 and 23 and also opposite the`holes`24 and25, and when screws are inserted intheseholes or openings the locks will not onlyv be secured in place, but the corner sections ofv the sash vw11 also be held'tightly together. In this way a new sash is made from the old sashes, and a method of salva-ging the old sashes 1s provided which results in a considerable saving, as the new-sashes which are thus vbuilt from the 01dsashsf can befused-.in the cars from lwhich the old .sashes were taken, ory in new cars, if'desired, so that `the oldsashes are not a total loss and are employed ina way that makes them more valuable than theyA wouldl be lfor* merely scrap metal-purposes. f

' As v`shown -in Figures 8 and 9, the sash.-

yis of a somewhat different shape, and vdoes not have thevgroove 15 previously described..

Signed by me vat inasmuch as a strong and smooth joint is 5f produced which is practically not noticeable.

From the foregoing it will be seen, therefore, that portions of the old sashes which have heretofore. been thrown away or merely melted up again are lemployed in the building of new sashes, and that even vthe locks of the oldsashes maybe saved v y this method of salvaging the old sashes, and that new sashes arey built-which lvery closely resemble the. old sashes and which'75 are well adapted forv use in the car windows from which they were taken, or in the windows of other cars, either new or old, depending upon conditions and circumstances. y

WVhat I claim as my 'invention is l or 1. In car window sash construction, the combination of hollow sheet metal ,sections salvaged from old sashe's' beveled attheir ends to form a ruiter-joint for the corner of the sash, having slots 20 and`21) there- 85 in, and` also openings 22j and 23) for screws, a sheet metal corner splicer (17 enclosed in the sash to hold the two sections" together at said corner, having a reinforce' (1 8) for said corner splicer, secured there-90" Vto by rivets V(19)1inserted through theH splicer and said reinforce, a lock provided with lugs (29 and 30) forinsertion in said slots, said splicer having openings (24 and l25) for screws, and said lugs having open-p95 ings (31 and 32), .the openings .(22, 24and 31) being in alinement to receive. a fastening screw when the various elements are' assembled, and the openings (23, 25 and 32) being in alinement to receive anotherfscrew, :whereby said screws 'secure 'splicer together.

the lockr vland 2. In car window sash construction, the

combination of two hollow sheet metal sections salvaged from old sashes having their ends brought together to` form a butt-joint between the vcorners of the sash, and a splicer comprising parallel side members (13) i, spaced apart by rivets (14) to fit the interior of the sections and reinforce the butt- 171.0 joint, said splicer bemg sweated inplace,

substantially as described.

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